South Moor

South Moor is a village in the civil parish of Stanley, in County Durham, England. It is located to the south-west of Stanley on the northern slope of the Craghead valley. It is a well-developed village, yet still semi-rural, containing a main street (Park Road) of around twelve shops which survive despite their proximity to the front street of Stanley and its Asda supermarket. There was a branch of Stanley Co-op at the bottom of Park Rd and a glove factory above it. On the opposite side in a walled garden stood the Colliery Offices for the district. A local meeting place for teenagers in the 1950s and 1960s was Boves café which had a jukebox and sold coffee and snacks. The proprietor also had an ice cream factory around the back of the shop and vans travel about to this day selling to the public. There is a local church, St. Georges at the bottom of South Moor and "The Woodland Tavern" once was the Miners Hall.